Social structures and communications in the world of microorganisms

@article{Grechenko2019SocialSA,
  title={Social structures and communications in the world of microorganisms},
  author={Tatiana N. Grechenko and Alexander N. Kharitonov and Alexander V. Zhegallo},
  journal={Experimental Psychology (Russia)},
  year={2019},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:213717463}
}
Electrographic characteristics of the states and event dynamics of social structures indicate synchronization processes in solving a common problem in each of the studied communities.
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